Intro to Segmentation

U-Net, Mask R-CNN, and Medical Applications

Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD
Towards Data Science
10 min readJan 21, 2020

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Segmentation has numerous applications in medical imaging (locating tumors, measuring tissue volumes, studying anatomy, planning surgery, etc.), self-driving cars (localizing pedestrians, other vehicles, brake lights, etc.), satellite image interpretation (buildings, roads, forests, crops), and more.

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